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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS

February 27, 2011Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2011, 4:38 PM CST for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 27, 2011, 4:38 PM CST (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Feb 27, 2011, 5:04 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 27, 1:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

810 
WUUS53 KICT 272238
SVRICT
KSC095-272315-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0004.110227T2238Z-110227T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
438 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 515 PM CST

* AT 436 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF ZENDA...OR 13 MILES SOUTH OF KINGMAN...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NORWICH AND MURDOCK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN WICHITA.

&&

LAT...LON 3757 9822 3773 9780 3741 9781 3739 9825
TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 240DEG 52KT 3747 9809
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN

$$

LAWSON

2 follow-up statements

149 
WWUS53 KICT 272251
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
451 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011

KSC095-272315-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-110227T2315Z/
KINGMAN KS-
451 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN
KINGMAN COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM CST...

AT 449 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED...PRODUCING 
QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CHENEY...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KINGMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60
MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN KINGMAN COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN WICHITA.

&&

LAT...LON 3748 9808 3764 9801 3773 9780 3772 9780
      3765 9780 3741 9781
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 235DEG 54KT 3760 9789
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

MCGUIRE

100 
WWUS53 KICT 272304
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
504 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011

KSC095-272313-
/O.CAN.KICT.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-110227T2315Z/
KINGMAN KS-
504 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN KINGMAN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH ADDITIONAL 
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS KINGMAN COUNTY.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH 
CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM.

LAT...LON 3748 9808 3764 9801 3773 9780 3772 9780
      3765 9780 3741 9781
TIME...MOT...LOC 2303Z 235DEG 54KT 3770 9770

$$

MCGUIRE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 26, 9:11 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more	18 hr
Feb 27, 1:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Sedgwick	39 min
Feb 27, 1:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Marion, Sedgwick	54 min
Feb 27, 2:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood	53 min
Feb 27, 4:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick	41 min
Feb 27, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	36 min
Feb 27, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Marion	47 min
Feb 27, 5:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	43 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.